Throwback Muriels: 1968

Sunday, July 31, 2011

1968

Sorry, but making this ballot flat-out HURT.

Picture:
Belle de Jour
2001: A Space Odyssey
Week End
Shame
The Producers
Faces
War and Peace
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Yellow Submarine
Who’s That Knocking at My Door?

Director:
Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour
Sergei Bondarchuk, War and Peace
Jean-Luc Godard, Week End
Ingmar Bergman, Shame

Male Lead:
Zero Mostel, The Producers
George C. Scott, Petulia
Max von Sydow, Shame
John Marley, Faces
Harvey Keitel, Who’s That Knocking at My Door?

Female Lead:
Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour
Ludmila Savelyeva, War and Peace
Liv Ullmann, Shame
Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby
Jeanne Moreau, The Bride Wore Black

Male Supporting:
Michel Piccoli, Belle de Jour
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Shame
Pierre Clementi, Belle de Jour
Seymour Cassel, Faces
John Cassavetes, Rosemary’s Baby

Female Supporting:
Shirley Knight, Petulia
Danielle Darrieux, The Young Girls of Rochefort
Lynn Carlin, Faces
Genevieve Page, Belle de Jour
Ruth Gordon, Rosemary’s Baby

Screenplay:
Shame
Belle de Jour
The Producers
Who’s That Knocking at My Door?
2001: A Space Odyssey

Ensemble:
War and Peace
The Producers
Belle de Jour
Night of the Living Dead
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Cinematography:
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Cloquet)
Petulia (Roeg)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Unsworth)
Belle de Jour (Vierny)
Shame (Nykvist)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.